The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

As a final incentive before giving up a

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.